Fallout Shelter
THE TASK:
We are tasking you – as the future inheritors of mankind’s history, technology, and culture, to decide who will be placed into your local shelter for an undetermined length of time to eventually rebuild civilization.
Please select 2 professions that you think belong in our shelter to help rebuild and re-establish society when the atomic radiation dies down and it will be safe to emerge.
YOU LEARNED:
- To present a logical argument and an appeal to the class as to why you, as a member of your
profession, belong in the fallout shelter.
- To carefully listen to each other.
- To voice your opinion and to logically discuss with your classmates the merits of each presentation.
- To make decisions as a class.
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House Keeping
YOU LEARNED:
- To write a Daily D3aT Box (Day, Date, and Topic - in the upper outer corner of you notebook)
- To write a daily WIL Statement (a specific What I Learned statement)
- To record Homework and Homework status in your Homework Record Sheet.
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Speed Lab
THE TASK:
Measure distance and times for you to walk, fast walk, and run then calculate your speeds.
Calculate your team then class average speeds.
YOU LEARNED:
- The average 8th grader walks about 1 m/sec, fast walks about 2 m/sec, and runs about 4 m/sec.
- Note that the speed was doubled, then doubled again.
- Fine print: the averages in several classes were slightly greater than the above values.
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Vector and Scalar quantities
YOU LEARNED:
- A Vector quantity has both magnitude (amount) and direction.
- A scalar quantity has only magnitude.
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Velocity and Acceleration
YOU LEARNED:
- That Velocity has a magnitude (speed) and direction. (this makes it a Vector quantity)
- Speed has only magnitude (this make speed a Scalar quantity)
- Acceleration is any change in velocity (speed and/or direction)
- Mathematically, acceleration is change in velocity/time.
- Acceleration has units of m/sec/sec or m/sec2
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Newton 1
YOU LEARNED:
- N1 is also called the Law of Inertia
An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion stays in motion
(in a straight line with uniform speed) unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
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Newton 2
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Newton 3
YOU LEARNED:
N3 is often (mistakenly) stated as follows:
Every ACTION has an equal and opposite REACTION.
A better way to say N3 is:
Every FORCE has an equal and opposite FORCE. That is - when you push on something, it pushes back on you. This is the case no matter what moves.
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The Ice Guy
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Law of Conservation of Momentum
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10 Easy Steps and Reaction Time
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Rendezvous with a Space Station
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Cannonball drop
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Newton's Law of Universal Gravitation
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Your Gravitational Attractiveness
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Lost in Space
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Work
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Power
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Energy
YOU LEARNED:
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PE
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